1831 - Roby, John - Traditions of Lancashire, Second Series (2)

Allusion
Date	1831
Author	Roby, John
Title	Traditions of Lancashire, Second Series
Mentions	Robin Hood's Bed (Blackstone Edge); Robin Hood's Quoit (Monston Edge)

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West to east: Robin Hood's Quoit and Robin Hood's Bed.

John Roby / Roby, John. Popular Traditions of Lancashire (London, 1843), vol. I, frontis.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-14. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Allusion

The following night she watched the moon, as it rose above the huge crags, breaking the long undulating horizon of Blackstone Edge, called "Robin Hood's Bed," or "Robin Hood's chair."*


[Note] * On a bleak moor, called Monstone Edge, in this hamlet, is a huge moor-stone or outlier, which (though part of it was broken off and removed some years ago) still retains the name of Monstone. It is said to have been quoited thither by Robin Hood, from his bed on the top of Blackstone Edge, about six miles off. After striking the mote or mark aimed at, the stone bounced off a few hundred yards, and settled there. These stones, however, in all probability, if not Druidical, were landmarks, the ancient boundary of the hamlet of Healey; and, as was once customary, the marvellous story of this ancient outlaw might be told to the urchins, who accompanied the perambulators, with the addition, probably, of a few kicks and cuffs, to make them remember the spot.

Source notes

IRHB's brackets. The passage occurs in Roby's retelling of 'The Fairies' Chapel'.

Lists

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.
• Outside scope of Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.

Sources

• Roby, John. Traditions of Lancashire. Second Series (London, 1831), vol. I, p. 135
  • Roby, John. Popular Traditions of Lancashire (London, 1843), vol. I, p. 267 & n.
  • Roby, John. Traditions of Lancashire (London, 1867); not seen
  • Roby, John. Traditions of Lancashire (London; Manchester, 1872), vol. II, p. 18 & n.
  • Roby, John. Traditions of Lancashire (London; Edinburgh, 1879); not seen
  • Roby, John. Traditions of Lancashire (Manchester, [189?]); not seen
  • Roby, John; Milner, George, introd. Traditions of Lancashire (Manchester, [1906]); not seen
  • Roby, John. Traditions of Lancashire. Second Series (London; New York, 1928); not seen
  • Roby, John. Traditions of Lancashire. Second Series (London, 1930); not seen

Background

• Wikipedia: John Roby.

Also see

• Robin Hood's Bed (Blackstone Edge)
• Robin Hood's Quoit (Monston Edge)
• 1829 - Roby, John - Traditions of Lancashire (1)
• 1829 - Roby, John - Traditions of Lancashire (2)
• 1831 - Roby, John - Traditions of Lancashire, Second Series (1)
• 1831 - Roby, John - Traditions of Lancashire, Second Series (3)
• 1831 - Roby, John - Traditions of Lancashire, Second Series (4)
• 1854 - Roby, John - Literary and Poetical Remains (1)
• 1854 - Roby, John - Literary and Poetical Remains (2).

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